Tyne and Wear Education Business Link has shown its commitment to educating its staff by passing a national award.

Tyne and Wear Education Business Link has shown its commitment to educating its staff by passing a national award.

Sunderland-based TWEBLO has achieved Investors in People recognition after implementing its own quality standards.

The body, involved in funding a range of projects running in the area's schools, has eight full-time staff, all involved with planning and carrying out procedures that helped to achieve Investors in People

With the aim of raising the quality and quantity of Business Link Education activities across the region, it looked at itself first and the areas it could improve, then set the wheels in motion.

Val Milnes, general manager, said: "When we went for Investors in People we had already put our quality standards into place so it was a case of seeing how well they were working.

"As a new organisation we had to start with a blank canvas and look at every area of the business."